Ebook: Biocatalysis in Agricultural Biotechnology

Content: Interdependence of enzymology and agricultural biotechnology / John R. Whitaker --
Design of enzymatic catalysts / Donald Hilvert --
Tailoring enzyme systems for food processing / Joseph E. Spradlin --
Characteristics of some enzymes used in genetic engineering / John R. Whitaker --
Plant cells for secondary metabolite production / Dietrich Knorr --
Regulation of starch synthesis : biochemical and genetic studies / Jack Preiss, Douglas Cress, Jan Hutny, Matthew Morell, Mark Bloom, Thomas Okita, and Joseph Anderson --
Pectin-degrading enzymes in fruit and vegetable processing / A.G.J. Voragen and W. Pilnik --
Chitinolytic enzymes and their applications / John P. Zikakis --
Extracellular peroxidases involved in lignin degradation by the white rot basidiomycete Phanerochaete chrysosporium / Michael H. Gold, Hiroyuki Wariishi, and Khadar Valli --
Peroxidase-catalyzed polymerization of phenols : kinetics of p-cresol oxidation in organic media / Keungarp Ryu, Douglas R. Stafford, and Jonathan S. Dordick --
A new immobilized positional nonspecific lipase for fat modification and ester synthesis / Hans Peter Heldt-Hansen, Michiyo Ishii, Shamkant A. Patkar, Tomas T. Hansen, and Peter Eigtved --
Specialty enzymes and products for the food industry / Don Scott --
Immobilized plant cell reactor systems / H. Pedersen, C.K. Chin, and K. Venkatasubramanian --
High-level synthesis and secretion of [alpha]-amylase from rice callus / Carl R. Simmons and Raymond L. Rodriguez --
Structure-function properties of the sperm enzyme acrosin / Jerry L. Hedrick, Umbert A. Urch, and Daniel M. Hardy --
Enzyme-probe conjugates as analytical tools in diagnostics / Charles A. Dangler and Bennie I. Osburn --
Immobilized enzymes as processing aids or analytical tools / Harold E. Swaisgood and H. Robert Horton --
Aryloxyphenoxypropanoate and cyclohexanedione herbicides : inhibition of acetyl coenzyme A carboxylase / Jacob Secor, Csaba Cséke, and W. John Owen --
Inhibition of acetolactate synthase by triazolopyrimidines : a review of recent developments / Mani V. Subramanian and B. Clifford Gerwick --
Plant enzymes in resistance to insects / Sean S. Duffey and Gary W. Felton --
Elongation reactions involved in hydrocarbon biosynthesis in insects / Gary J. Blomquist, Apollo H. Vaz, Russell A. Jurenka, and Ronald C. Reitz --
Enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of sex pheromones in moths / Walter A. Wolf and Wendell L. Roelofs --
Enzyme-catalyzed pheromone synthesis by Heliothis moths / Peter E.A. Teal, J.H. Tumlinson, and A. Oostendorp --
Preparation of chiral building blocks by biochemical methods / Kenji Mori --
Baker's yeast-mediated synthesis of natural products / Claudio Fuganti and Piero Grasselli --
Preparation of optically active pyrethroids via enzymatic resolution / Takeaki Umemura and Hideo Hirohara.